Intercultural Communication
Moving Out into the World
Leigh Chamberlain
Issue date: 11/17/08 Section: On Campus
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"Intercultural Communication," focuses on communication practices within various cultures. It also helps students understand influences on a cross-cultural level of communication.
Taught online, Dr. Melanie Moll will be appropriately instructing cross-culturally. She currently resides in Switzerland, and will be the professor for students who choose to enroll in this course. Dr. Melanie Moll expressed,
"My goal for this course is to help students understand how people interact with one another, what they expect, and especially differences in cultural behaviors as projected through their communication, as well as to help them gain a Biblical understanding on issues of culture and cultural differences."
Melinda Kennedy, a senior business major, anticipates that the class will be helpful for fellow students. She states that it will prepare students to appreciate and understand different cultures of people around them, in order to communicate better with them.
The Bible makes it clear that worthwhile communication is important to God. Proverbs 10:32 says, "The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked [speaketh] forwardness." Ephesians 4:29 reminds readers to, "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." Glorifying God with our speech is critical to believers as we interact with the unbelieving world.
Although the course will be part of the Communication Arts major curriculum, other majors may benefit as well. For example, business majors, like Julie Kennedy, and those interested in missions or other anthropological directions.
Students who complete this class will certainly have a reservoir of knowledge to be able to communicate with others from different cultures. With this addition in curriculum, CCC hopes to encourage students to cross new horizons within communication.
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